The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-17

well conference meeting in charge of Rev.
j. j. Lewis
THERE are fifteen inmates of the Soldiers
Home at present, as follows: George Il.
Wood, Company f., A. Champleau, Com
pany G, and William S. Madison, Company
], Second Vermont Regiment; George G.
Chase, Company f, Third Vermont; Isaac N.
Porter, Company f, L. b. Whitney Com
pany A. and l. Il. Colby, Company III, Fourth
Vermont; Joseph Demar, Company e, Fifth
Vermont; Chester Derby, Company A,
Seventh Vermont; II. j. Mari, Company
!, Thirteenth Vermont Josiah Halsey,
Company A, Fourteenth Vermont; X. S.
Phillips, Company f, Seventeenth Vermont
William NJ. Depar, Company band; Thomas
O'Bren, Company NJ, First Vermont Cav
airy; Patrick Murphy, First Vermont Bat
terry. About fifty applications have been
received for admittance to the home, nearly
one-half being from soldiers living in other
states at the present time, these latter re-
ported to be in poor-houses, hospitals and
destitute among strangers.
In General.
Mr.. BLAINE and family are in Ireland.
THE cholera is spreading rapidly in Malta
SMALLPOX and yellow fever are raging in
Havana, Cuba.
RAIN has put an end to the drouth in
southern Wisconsin.
AN extensive fire ragged Monday at Sou
tart, opposite Constantinople.
IT is said that the land bill is in danger
of defeat in the house of lords.
Corn has eclipsed wheat in dealings on
the Chicago produce exchange.
QUEEN KAPIoLANI is said to have Dor
rowed $1,000 to pay her expenses home.
f. ID. CowLEs, a prominent New York
lawyer, was drowned in the st. Lawrence.
JEAN VICTOR DURUY, the eminent French
historian, is dead, at the age of seventy-six.
THE blowing out of canal-gate caused
two-thirds of Augusta, Ga, to be inundated.
A HAIL-sToRM killed several persons and
destroyed considerable property at Renville,
MINI.
IT is said that France and England have
agreed upon plan for neutralzing the Suez
Canal.
THE Weber wagon works were burned at
Chicago last week. Loss $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
THE Labrador cod fishery this year is
total failure, which means starvation in
Newfoundland.
JAMES WHITE, aged sixteen, admits two at
tempts at wrecking passenger-trains near
UXbridge Mass.
Hon. A. A. SARGENT, formerly United
States senator from California, died Sunday
in San Francisco.
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Weirs Center, n. H., were made sick Fri
day by ice-cream.
BY an accident in the Cleveland mine,
Ishpenning, three miners were killed and
three fatally hurt.
THE weekly crop bulletin indicates that
last weeks rains through the West came too
late to do much good
A PRAIRIE fire in the town of Lake, ILL.,.
destroyed Auburn school building and four
residences. Loss S15O,0O0.
SOUTHERN MANITOBA was visited by a
terrific hail-storm. The injury to wheat and
other crops was disastrous.
PRINCE FERDINAND has taken the oath of
office and assumed the throne of Bulgaria.
The ministry has resigned.
GENERAL CHARLES HUGHES, noted Grim
inal lawyer and eX-congressman, died at
Sandy Hill, n. Y, the 10th.
IT is alleged that Russia and England
have agreed to divide Afghanistan when
the present Ameer shall die.
THERE was a $4,000 fire at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, and 100000 worth of grain and other
property burned at Montreal.
A LETTER from Mr.. Blaine denies that he
has been ILL., and states that he will not re-
turn until June of next year.
w. L. GILBERT of Hartford has given
100000 to found an institution for friend
less boys and girls in that city
MOONEY, who set fire to the steamer
"The Queen" was declared insane and
committed to the Wards Island hospital.
THE medical returns show that 10000 per-
sons died from cholera in the northwest
provinces of India during June and July.
THE organ of the Presbyterian church at
Bloomfield, n. j., was completely wrecked
on Saturday by the bursting of a bellows.
CHOLERA has broken out in the northwest
of India. New cases and several deaths are
reported from the previously infested dis
tricts.
TwENrY-THREE persons in Pittsburg Pa.
are lying i'll with yellow chrome or other
poison used by baker in custard and other
dishes.
A CONSTRUCTION train ran into a COW near
Evansville, Ind. with such force as to
wreck the whole train and kill five of the
laborers.
THE Italian health reports show six
hundred four deaths from cholera during
the month of July. The epidemic is still
| spreading.
KEY WEST is recovering from the scourge
! OF yellow fever, but now fears an Eruption
of smallpox from Cuba, where that disease
| is prevalent.
HEAVY forest fires have been raging
throughout the section of Grand Haven
Mich, for the past two weeks, doing consid.
cradle damage.
VIRGINIA republicans, under the lead OF
| General Malone, have decided to hold no
state convention, but an address to the peo-
| pie will be issued.
A soDA-wATER fountain apparatus eX.
| ploded in the cellar of Vessels & Gates
drugstore at Litchtield, Ct, instantly kill
| ing William A. Moore.
WILLIAM WATERHoUsE, a Maine farmer
was killed and his wife fatally injured while
crossing the Portland Il Rochester rail
road in Hollis Center, Maine.
JOHN NJ. CLAY only surviving son OF
Henry Clay, died the 10th of heart disease
at the age of siXty-tive years. He was
prominent turfman and lawyer.
STORIES of terrible suffering and starva-
| tion.come from Labrador. Sandwich, Table
Rocky, Porcupine and EsquimauX bays are
the scenes of the greatest restitution.
Mr. PARNELL is in good financial condi
ton through the 100000 fund raised for
him in Ireland and America. The other
Irish leaders are also well looked out for
A SHELL exploded at the Waxholm fort
which commands the approach to Stock
holm, Sweden, killing nineteen men anC
wounding many others, including three
officers.
THE Rocky Mountain locust has made it
appearance in large numbers in the Beave
River settlement, forty miles from Saska
toon Northwest Territory, and has eater
up the crops.
The largest satisfactory in New Hamp
shire, situated at Wolfboro, owned by TIN
Steam Power Company and occupied b,